Google Is Saving Over $1 Billion a Year by Working From Home

With Covid-19 restrictions lifting, more people are booking trips and hotels online, which is very good for Google’s advertising business. Google’s employees, however, are working from home and not traveling as much on the company dime — and that’s also good for its business. During the first quarter, Google parent Alphabet Inc. saved $268 million in expenses from company promotions, travel and entertainment, compared to same period a year earlier, “primarily as a result of… Source link

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‘Ether Should Outperform Bitcoin Over the Long Run,’ Says JPMorgan

Ether (ETH) has ascended to the apex of cryptocurrency in the last couple of weeks, taking the top spot from bitcoin (BTC). As of this writing, ether has grown 40.23% so far since April 1 to a new all-time high of $2,700. In the same period, bitcoin has experienced a drop off of 7.39% from $58,772 on April 1 to $54,428, this morning.  Difference between ether and bitcoin JPMorgan points out the difference between ether and bitcoin as it pertains to this study. Bitcoin is much more a… Source link

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Moomoo Inc. Clinches Title Sponsorship for Yahoo Finance’s Exclusive Livestream of the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting

Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Shareholders Meeting, known as the “Woodstock for Capitalists”, is one of the most well–attended shareholder meetings in the world.  In the new normal, the event will be broadcasted remotely. Yahoo Finance will connect moomoo’s 13 million users to the only destination for investors and professionals to hear directly from billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Millions of people around the world are expected to tune in to hear Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, Vice… Source link

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Yahoo Golf Talk: Valspar Championship

The Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort is a tough test and it’s return to host the 20th edition of the Valspar Championship. We have lots of history to lean on but a new date on the calendar also means the course set up will look a little different this week. Most importantly, the temperatures should have been warm enough in the lead-up to allow the bermuda to thrive. That usually isn’t the case at this event where they’ve dealt with overseeded rye and poa trivialis in year’s past. So,… Source link

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TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Could Rally Over 100%, Says Oppenheimer Speaking of economic opportunity, and the general benefits of wide-ranging growth, President John Kennedy once said, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” As the COVID crisis fades, and economic activity starts returning to normal, we may be seeing just such a situation. The corporate earnings season, which is underway now, is clobbering expectations for the first quarter of 2021. We’ve seen reports from 121 S&P-listed… Source link

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US STOCKS-Dow, Nasdaq weighed down by Microsoft, Amgen; all eyes on Fed

* Fed expected to stand pat on interest rates    * Alphabet jumps on record profit    * Microsoft shares down on valuation    * Dow down 0.35%, S&P flat, Nasdaq off 0.23% (Updates prices to early afternoon)    By Shreyashi Sanyal and Shivani Kumaresan    April 28 (Reuters) – The Dow and Nasdaq indexes fell on Wednesday as Amgen and Microsoft weighed, while investors focused on a Federal Reserve meeting for updates on monetary policy and waited for another batch of earnings from big… Source link

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Google battles landmark UK class action over alleged iPhone tracking

Silhouette of a mobile user seen next to a screen projection of the Apple logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration A proposed multi-billion pound British class action against Google (GOOGL.O), which alleges the internet giant secretly tracked millions of iPhone users, is not viable and should not be allowed to proceed, the Supreme Court was told on Wednesday. Antony White, a lawyer for Google, told the first day of a two-day hearing that any… Source link

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‘Black Panther 2’ without Chadwick Boseman ‘feels spiritually and emotionally correct’

NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 12: Lupita Nyong’o attends Marvel Studios Presents: Black Panther Welcome To Wakanda during February 2018 New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Industria Studios on February 12, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/WireImage) Lupita Nyong’o was born in Mexico, raised in Kenya, and then attended college in the United States. So the 38-year-old Oscar winner understands the value and reach of globe-spanning entertainment, having grown up on a “very healthy… Source link

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Stocks trade mixed, Microsoft and Boeing shares weigh on Dow

Stocks were mixed Wednesday, with each of the three major indexes trading close to the flat line as investors digested an onslaught of corporate earnings results and looked ahead to a monetary policy decision from the Federal Reserve.  The S&P 500 ticked higher, after the index ended just short of a record high during the regular trading day on Tuesday. Shares of Alphabet (GOOGL) gained after the company posted first-quarter sales and profit that easily exceeded estimates, fueled by a… Source link

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